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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

A reminder that "AI" is neither intelligent nor sentient and reflects, explicitly and implicitly, those who control and program it. But then you knew this dude was a fucking Nazi, didn't you

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-grok-chatbot-antisemitic-posts-1235381165/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gurupanguji ("@gurupanguji") wrote:

The platform might set you up with the wrong incentives and it's only human to want to belong. Beware of the impact to your voice.

https://gurupanguji.com/2025/07/09/the-potential-downsides-of-platforms/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

We welcome the incipient larval infestation at our house.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/the-kids-are-coming-to-visit/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
junesim63@mstdn.social ("JuneSim63") wrote:

I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.

#Palantir #NHS #BMA #UKPolitics

Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/08/palantir-technology-uk-doctors-patient-nhs-data

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

New, improved Grok! Now with extra racism, fascism and antisemitism!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/fascism-in-fascism-out/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
felixthehat@mastodon.cloud wrote:

a good rss feed to follow is standard ebooks, you get a new free book practically every day. today's book looks v interesting #bookstodon #rss

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/tom-godwin/the-survivors

https://standardebooks.org/feeds/rss/new-releases

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sarble@gram.social ("Peter Goulborn") wrote:

Home counties pastoral.

#Photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

I had my browser set to autotranslate, so I read this piece in English (although ironically I can read German too, but perhaps not well on this topic), but if you don't have this feature, here's an English language piece on the hack.

https://caliber.az/en/post/media-russian-hackers-target-key-bundeswehr-suppliers-in-serious-cyberattacks

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
prachisrivas@masto.ai ("Prof Prachi Srivastava") wrote:

Ironically eponymous.

Springer Nature Book on Machine Learning is Full of Made-up Citations

'Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors.'

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

#AI #Books #Research

jwz wrote:

Figured it out. Prepend a "sleep 2;" to wait for XWayland to start up.

jwz wrote:

Today in Jewish Space Lasers.

A man broke into an enclosure containing the NextGen Live Radar system operated by News 9 in Oklahoma City, damaging its power supply and briefly knocking it offline: The man also damaged CCTV cameras monitoring the site,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykq-

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

The upgrade is complete, and all went well except for some weird issues with the mastodon-bird-ui family of themes. Will try to figure out what's up with those and will re-enable them as soon as I can (they had to be disabled because Mastodon wouldn't compile otherwise, yikes).

Boosted by jwz:
nberlat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Noah Berlatsky") wrote:

Musk made a Nazi salute and programmed his bot to spew antisemitic conspiracy theories, but of course these two things occur in complete isolation from each other and it would be unfair to draw conclusions about a person based on the things he does and says.

Boosted by jwz:
calcifer@masto.hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It's propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they'd *like that* to be true.

Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby)

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Folks here will notice that I’m less frequently detailing lower court opinions that attempt to stop the Trump regime’s lawless actions. This is because enough time has passed for enough appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court for U.S. to know that no matter how carefully a lower court judge explains and supports her rulings, the Supreme Court will act as lawlessly as the Trump executive. 1/ #LawFedi

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

NYC 2017—The night we landed, before we caught up with the rest of the gang, a few of us went to dinner in one of those trendy food courts in Chelsea. We had spicy noodles with many bottles of wine that we bought one bottle at a time from the liquor store. This photo isn't much but it reminds me of perhaps my favorite dinner of my adult life.

#travelpgotography #nyc

jwz wrote:

How do you auto-start things under Wayfire? When I add this to ~/.config/wayfire.ini:

[autostart]
xterm = xterm >> $HOME/LOG 2>&1

I get "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key".

But "lxterminal" will autostart, so I guess it's just X11 programs? And I can then launch xterm from lxterminal.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

December 2017 Yokohama Japan—

I woke up early for a day trip out of Tokyo. Ended up in Chinatown in Yokohama.

#travel #travelphotography

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

My favorite travel photos 🧵

#travel #TravelPhotography

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Must-read post by Ken White, free-speech defender and former prosecutor, about the Trump regime's malicious and hypocritical charges against a man whose "crime" was to give out masks at a protest against the masked thugs who kidnap people off the streets..

https://www.popehat.com/p/only-criminals-don-t-want-to-be-gassed-by-the-government?utm%5Fcampaign=only-criminals-don-t-want-to-be-gassed-by-the-government&utm%5Fmedium=newsletter&utm%5Fsource=www.popehat.com

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Make Teslas Uninsurable

UPDATE: 🎯

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

QST DE W1AW THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO. CQ W WRLDWIDE VHF SSBX CW CONTEST, TA VHF/UHF
CONTEST, MARCONI MEMORIAL HF CW CONTEST, NZART MEMORIAL CONTEST, FOC OLD SCHOOL CLASSIC 1960S CW QSO PARTY, VENEZUELAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
CONTEST, SPRINT WORLD WIDE AWARD, NCCC FT4 SPRINT, WEEKLY RTTY TEST, NCCC CW SPRINT, K1USN SR OW SPEED CW TEST,

*trying* to copy at 18wpm

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Ken Klippenstein reveals that federal agencies involved in ‘Operation Excalibur’ in L.A.’s MacArthur Park were given radio code names based on soda brands. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-operation-excalibur-in

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sigh, trying to copy W1AW pumping out CW at 18wmp on 7.0475MHz... I am so very rusty #HamRadio 📡

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is suddenly posting antisemitic tropes
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/tech/grok-ai-antisemitism?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business and Tech @business-and-tech-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NorcalGma2@sfba.social ("Norcal Gma 2") wrote:

Summer's cow sprung a leak.
Just a small hole, on a seam, but a crises for Summer.
She gently brought the cow to me for repair and waited until it was fixed.
Whenever these things happen the concern on her face melts my heart.
So instead of cooking breakfast we fetched the mending kit.
I believe we kept our priorities in order.
Once the cow was whole again Summer relaxed and we could get on with our day.
Whew!
Good morning, Mastodon.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomas@metalhead.club ("Tom :damnified:") wrote:

With Mastodon v4.4.0 instance owners can enable HTTP referrers. That means:

If somebody clicks a link in a Mastodon post (e.g. to a news article), the link target owner (such as the news site operator) can see that a user from that instance has visited their website.

They do _only_ get the instance domain (e.g. metalhead.club). No information about the user!

I've enabled this setting, because I am sure that it will increase awareness of Mastodon's existence. 💪

Edit: (in previous versions, Mastodon did not send referrer-Headers)

#mastodon #mastoadmin

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

Watching Democratic Party leadership campaigning against Zohran Mamdani instead of Trump’s giant fascism bill, and the New York Times adopt an internet Nazi troll as its de facto editor to go after Mamdani, all because of some milquetoast democratic socialism, all in the span of about a week, is such an astonishing confirmation of everything the left has been saying about these institutions for decades.

Like…it would have been difficult to script such a pitch-perfect meltdown over a brown guy who wants free buses in New York City.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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